Category: MIDDLE EAST

News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)

FRANCE ISRAEL / Partnership between TF1, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Armoza Formats for a TV game

The American production company Ryan Seacrest Productions, the French TF1 and the Israeli Armoza Formats have partnered to develop a new TV game “Babushka”. It will be presented at MIPTV, the international television exhibition, in Cannes from April 13th to 16th. The game is based on Russian dolls. Candidates face ten of them. Each doll …

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ISRAEL / i24News: Paul Amar starts work

The journalist Paul Amar, formerly news-reader on France2 and host of two France5 magazines “Revu et corrigé” and “19h Paul Amar”, comes to i24news, an international news channel broadcast in French, English and Arabic, launched by Patrick Drahi. Amar will spend a few months working on the organization and editorial aspects as well as the …

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TURKEY / RTÜK warns channel TV2 about using the word “God” instead of “Allah”

The Turkish Broadcasting Council (RTÜK) issued a formal warning to a television channel which used the word “God” instead of “Allah” in its translation of the French series “Vous les femmes”, reports the Hürriyet Daily News. According to the newspaper, RTÜK, criticized the dubbing of the episode shown on TV2 on January 28th, saying it …

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TURKEY / Construction of the first Turkish cultural centre bringing together archive films and a cinema museum

The opening of the first Turkish cultural centre housing films from the archives and a cinema museum is scheduled for 2017. The project was initiated by Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. It will consist of a film library, a cinema museum, a film laboratory, workshops and exhibition spaces, a room for major receptions and …

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TURKEY / Turkey partial member of Creative Europe

Non-member countries of the European Union can, in certain circumstances, participate in the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme, to provide support for their culture and broadcasting sectors. Turkey has become a partial member of this programme, joining Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro which all benefit from the programme. “Candidates from Turkey will …

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TURKEY / Bouquet Digitürk

Faced with financial problems, Emin Cukurova, majority owner of the bouquet Digitürk, is selling his 53% share of the bouquet. Several interested operators have made themselves known, but according to local sources an agreement has been made with beIN SPORTS. The agreement should be finalized early in the year (negotiations are ongoing). Sources: telesatellite.com, mediasportif.fr …

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TURKEY / Çağlan Tankur Yörümez new head of Internation Relations at TRT

Çağlan Tankur Yörümez has been appointed Director of International Relations at TRT. In 2014 she was TRT’s representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Born in Ankara, after obtaining her degree in 1995 at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts at Bilkent University she began her career with TRT as a singer in Radio Ankara’s polyphonic …

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